Family Quotes

The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years. ----George Clooney

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ----George Eliot

Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. ---Milton R. Saperstein

We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. -----Marquise de Sévigné

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. ----Lee Iacocca

A father in a canoe in which his baby is seated walks more carefully than on land. ---- O Anna Niemus

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time.” - ---Walt Disney 20. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ----Michael Levine
21. If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them. ----Johnny Depp

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. -----George Moore

We have been through so much together. None of us are from London and we're living away from our friends and family. We only have each other and that's what has made us so tight - that's why we have to remain as a five. ---Kimberley Walsh

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - ---Harry S Truman